Machinima recently announced their new release slate with a host of new DC Comics-related shows stemming from their partnership with Warner Bros, some renewals, a show curated by horror master Clive Barker, young-adult sci-fi, a couple of game-related projects, and one nobody saw coming – RoboCop. Machinima’s CEO Chad Gutstein said when announcing the upcoming slate: Fandom and gaming engenders so …
New video game based webseries Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist is finally here, two years after it was first announced! But hey, if there’s anything I learnt from watching Dragonball Z, it’s that creating a fireball takes a reeeeeeaaaaaaally long time. This weekend saw Machinima, the same streaming network behind Kevin Tancharoen’s awesome Mortal Kombat Legacy, hadouken all 13 episodes online for your viewing …
Contrary to popular belief, Youtube is not just for cat videos and annoying songs about a particular day of the week. The video sharing site has also become a very viable platform for delivering high quality web series that would otherwise not have seen life in the traditional TV model. And that’s a very good thing, because after the headache …
The internet is an amazing place (it’s also a creepy place where grown men pretend to be teenage girls, but enough about Darryn). It has given fledgeling filmmakers exposure like never before through online various online “studios”. One of the bigger studios, Machinima, was very recently given a massive $18 million cash boost by none other than Warner Bros to …
Both companies are cutting about a quarter of their work forces. What a shame for all those people.
It's been revealed that some prolific YouTubers are accepting money to spin positive stories. Here's what I think about that.
Viral advertising, marketing and other techniques are fully accepted, but when Machinima tried to buy integrity it certainly backfired.
Look, if you’re going to make a movie that will be recorded in a cinema by a dodgy chap with a camera technique honed by epileptic monks with Parkinson disease, you might as well cut out the pirating middle-man and shove said content straight onto the net. That’s just what Ridley Scott is going to be doing, as he’ll be producing a dozen new …
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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